BBC2 Politics Live TODAY, 18 Oct

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1215 BBC2 #politicslive Brexit, health rationing and the 1st of 2 films on trans rights. Tomorrow we hear from young trans women about why they want change and today @ElizabethGlinka meets feminist activists from @WomansPlaceUK concerned about the effect on women’s rights.

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This piece is from film taken at the Liverpool WPUK meeting last month.

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Helen Watts on now. Go Helen.

Ooo, Benjamin really wanted to be a bit more unpleasant about 'the people with a problem with this', didn't he?

Benjamin Cohen of Pink News completely confusing sex and gender. What a surprise. Presenter Jo Coburn trying to pin him down but it's like trying to nail jelly to the wall

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The film was OK but didn't really set out the basic fact that ANY MAN can say they're a woman without changing ANYTHING about their body or their lives.

Studio discussion is ridiculous, but the presenter is handling it well so far.

Who's the dark haired lady in the green dress, she's awesome.

There is one woman panellist who is brilliant. Don't know who she is, but she is just excellent. Prisons, sport, trolling... go her.

BC now trying to talk loudly over the top of the excellent woman in green and drown her out (sorry, didn't see the start - she's great - who is she?)

Oh ha de fucking ha. Transmen brought up, as usual as a gotcha after thoughts.

Oh, and men talking over a woman.

She is holding her own when 2 men keep trying to talk over her. So infuriating. 'You're blowing it out of proportion' says one bloke. Talking about assault.

"You're blowing it out of proportion."

Thanks mate. Tosser.

BC says 'there are far more trans people than Jewish people'

Really?

Politician filling airtime by saying precisely nothing.

I am so angry watching this. Ben Cohen lying outright and smirking at it all. It’s only a small percentage of women who would be at risk so we should just let it happen?? Isn’t one woman one woman too many? Fuck them! And fuck the BBC for holding this shit show!

Camilla Tominey, of the Telegraph. She is spot on. Ben Cohen is very muddled. And he actually smirked when Camilla mentioned a woman being almost killed in the boxing ring by a transwoman. That was really unpleasant.

Also very pleased that the ex guide leader mentioned respecting everyone's rights. Allowing transgirls into guides is not respecting my daughter's rights not to share a changing room with a male body? It's not respecting her rights as a 13 year old who's shy and conscious of her changing body.

Honestly that was frustrating. It's always men saying we should be kinder etc etc...

Bag of shite, and the MP in pink was useless.

Same old same old BBC bollocks.

Theresa Villiers couldn't sit on the fence more if she tried.

Ben Cohen is deeply, deeply unpleasant. No one could not see that, whatever their beliefs on this. I'd be embarrassed to have such a nasty piece of work speaking for me.

"There are 263,346 Jews in England and Wales according to the last census although due to the voluntary nature of the question on faith and under-reporting, the Institute for Jewish Policy Research estimates that the actual figure is 284,000."
Source: www.bod.org.uk/jewish-facts-info/jews-in-numbers/

Bother - only caught the last 2 mins. Who's the waffly MP?